European-Funded Project Uses AI and Chemistry to Trace Origins of Dead Sea Scrolls
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First reported by Walla · 55 minutes ago
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An international team led by Professor Malden Popović, funded by a 2.5 million euro ERC grant, will use AI and chemical analyses to trace the origins of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The project will study materials from the scrolls and compare them with samples from Egypt to determine where and how the scrolls were produced and possibly reveal new insights into ancient Judean cultural networks.
- 01A 2.5 million euro ERC grant funds a five-year project to study the Dead Sea Scrolls' origins.
- 02The project combines humanities, chemistry, and AI to analyze ink, parchment, and papyrus materials.
- 03About 250 samples from the scrolls and Egyptian papyri will be chemically compared.
- 04AI will identify material and stylistic fingerprints to map scroll production sites.
- 05The research aims to locate writing centers and cultural networks in ancient Judea.
- 06Israel Antiquities Authority collaborates, providing access to over 25,000 scroll fragments.
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